Green

The theme green from the GOT Polish Challenge.
I wanted to participate all the time, but the timing was far from being perfect and I did miss it every week. But this time...
I have got some nice green shades, and the oldest of them is the lightest pastel green color with silver mini-glitter. It's Grunge me tender! from the essence limited edition floral Grunge.

The next stripe is catrice Green Days (limited edition Hip Trip).
Over the middle intense green I placed the stripes made in decal technique with chrome light green by Artdeco and also long time owned Voyeuristic Green by alessandro. The image is from Bundle Monster BM-306.

Borders are decorated with green striping tape.

Chinese New Year 2014

Chinese New Year 2014 falls on the 31st of January. The Year of the Horse began and gave me reason to use Bundle Monster Holiday plates. BM-H15 is all about chinese new year.

I stamped over essie Good as Gold with the Rouge prussien by Ives Rocher. The colours are swapped on my pinky nail.

The horse on my middle nail is painted freehand with acrylics.

Essence Love Letters

Essence has released the new limited series: Love Letters with nail polishes, even with one new stamping polish!  Also there is mattifying paper among some other products.

And a new stampy set. I already have two of essence "stampy sets" and didn't wanted another one, but the stamping plate was worth it.

Lets see, what I could do with the Love Letters.
"Background" text is from Bundle Monster BM-405. Other images come from the new essence plate. The images are stamping well, what is not always the case for essence plates. Dark gray stampy polish works also perfectly.

Some images are like "stamps" on envelops: they have "worn" edges. I stamped them also with a violet polish by Ives Rocher, which looks like stamp ink.

Mani with three purples

Hi!
Today's challenge in the FB group Adventures in Stamping is mani with three purples.
So I thought of many purples that I used to rarely and of not even used stamping plates.
And that's what came out.

As a base I painted plain white polish. The OPI Nicole Count on me is very translucent, I painted like 5 coats over white colour to get near the colour of polish in the bottle.
Then I stamped with Maybelline Colorama Lavender Lies grass and little butterflies from the Mother Nature Collection 01 by MoYou.

Oh, almost forgot, that the middle finger and thumb are stamped also with Konad purple metallic.
Then I put larger butterflies from the other MoYou plate Kitty collection 01, using violet electrique.

Then I added some glitter to butterfly wings and to the "ground".

OPI Nicole Count on me has got a blueish nuance at some angles of view.

dodo Glam Nail

Hello!
Here we are - one of the polishes I've bought in Japan. Meet dodo Glam Nail. The maker doesn't bother to give interesting names to their shades, so it has got only a number: 490.
The polish is light pink with golden shimmer. It's very translucent, I've painted three coats, and still my nails weren't covered completely.

Прывітанне!
Вось я дабралася і да выпрабавання лака, які я купіла ў час падарожжа па Японіі. Знаёмцеся,  dodo Glam Nail. Вытворца гэтага брэнду не заклапочаны выдумленнем гучных назваў для кожнага колеру, таму лак атрымаў толькі нумар 490.
Лак вельмі празрысты, светла-ружовага колеру, з вялікай колькасьцю залатога шымеру. Я бы нават казала, што колер ружова-залаты. Я нанесла тры слаі, аднак лак не здолеў цалкам закрыць пазногаць.

The other drawback is a relatively long drying time. I smudged the nails, as they were all dry in my opinion.:(

Яшчэ адзін мінус - доўгі час на прасушванне. Нават калі я была ўпэўнена, што лак мусіў быць сухім, змазала некаторыя пазногці. :(

On the positive side is the colour itself.
The shine of golden particles is seen most in the artificial light.

Да плюсаў можна аднесці колер лака.
Бліск найлепш бачны пад электрычным святлом.

I guess, the tender pink with gold may be popular among Japanese girls, because it's girly and cute.

Мяркуецца, што японскія дзяўчыны любяць такія пяшчотныя і адначасова бліскучыя колеры, таму што яны дзяўчачыя і чароўныя.

ColorShow Stripped Nudes

Hello!
After some weeks of relatively high stress in my job, I went to check on the drogery shops, andI discovered so many new releases... I just cannot keep up with buying!
Maybelline brought out the new series Stripped Nudes.
I don't know exactly, what colours are in the palette of Stripped Nudes, because they were almost all sold out. I managed to secure the two following colours: Bare it all and Bronze me up.

The nude shade has relatively good covering power: two coats are enough to cover the nail completely. It's plain colour without glitter or shimmer, and is has a glossy finish.
Glittery Bronze me up contains larger slightly curled hexagons and small glitter in the same copper colour. You have to paint some more coats (I did three or four).

And for the good company I dug out my old good Copper Cabana by Catrice, which is great colour and also stamps well. It's MoYou London Pro collection 14.

Winter Thermo

This time we were testing a thermo polish by Dance Legend. My sister was here again with her nails. The shade number 176 is lilac or purple in a "cold state". The shade is matte without any noticeable shimmer.

I stamped with essie Nothing Else Metals the swirly images from MoYou Pro 14. For the accent nail  I took white colour and MoYou Pro 06.

And if it's warm the polish turns to bright pink! 

If the air temperature is on level to keep only the free nail edge cool and you have warm hands, you get some gradient like this.

Anyway you can play with the polish by cooling and warming your hands.